different spectrums

I’ve been drooling over the kona cotton bundles for a while now.  I don’t have much of a fabric stash yet, hence I’m sorta addicted to fat quarters.  I’m drawn to the idea of a little bit of lots right now.  So fat quarters are my thing.  Another Christmas gift I received were two kona cotton fat quarter bundles.

While waiting for these bundles to arrive, I kinda knew they were coming, I had tons of ideas of what to do with them.  They are so full of potential all bundled up together the shades nicely blending into each other.  I’m a bit nervous to undo these.  I’ll never be able to put them back in order.  I’ll never even really know which fabric is named what if I were to want to order more of a particular one.  And so I’ve frozen. 

I’m not too worried about this freeze, I’m still enjoying the bundles.  Trying to decide what project would be special enough for me to crack them open.  Or maybe I’ll just get a bug under my skin and just throw them all in the wash and then it’ll be done with. 
Back in December Mom and I went to an open house of sorts of different artists studios.  It’s a very personal thing to go visit an artist where they work.  It was fascinating.  One of our stops was a shared spaced between an oil painter and a pastel artist.  We were drawn in b/c of the oils but ended up chatting with the pastel guy.  He was a great guy, liked to talk about his adventures.  And he didn’t mind sharing his process of how he paints and creates.  One thing that he sometimes does was to paint one photo several times.  This way by the third time you’re trying new things, you have a different perspective, and the image isn’t as special any more because you’ve done it before.  And its true I can spend hours deciding on a plan because the project is special and I don’t want to mess it up.  But if i plan to do it again anyway it takes some of the pressure off and allows more adventures in.  Anyway I’ve been thinking about doing some mini quilt studies.  I ‘m currently doodling and seeing what I can come up with, but I’m hoping to do some studies soon.
*photos were taken from the fat quarters shop where they were purchased from.

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